LasersHurt:Why should a barely-paid driver have to intervene in a fight?

And there was a female involved? If the girl was winning and the driver stepped in, you can bet someone would dig up a sexual assault charge. It might be baseless, but that driver will still have that charge on his record.

you're all right, he was farked. i hope someone who reads the article gives him a good paying low stress job. obviously he is capable of making rational decisions and working under miserable conditions.

school teachers and bus drivers: amazing anyone is willing to put up with the shiat they get daily

There was no way he could have come out ahead in that scenario. He should have just driven the bus off a cliff, or into oncoming traffic or something. Then he could drag a few injured kids out of the bus and he'd be a hero.

I get how as a school bus driver he does have to make sure the kids are OK -- but in this case, the "kids" were an 18 year old girl and a "juvenile male" who I'm guessing was not much younger. If they'd been fighting on a public bus, nobody would be arresting the driver, they'd be arresting the teens for assault and endangering the people around them. As it was, it sounds like the driver chose the best of several bad options; don't interfere and get either hammered or charged with assault (two older teens are a very different kettle of fish from, say, two squabbling eight-year-olds) and keep the other kids on the bus out of the way.

RenownedCurator:I get how as a school bus driver he does have to make sure the kids are OK -- but in this case, the "kids" were an 18 year old girl and a "juvenile male" who I'm guessing was not much younger. If they'd been fighting on a public bus, nobody would be arresting the driver, they'd be arresting the teens for assault and endangering the people around them. As it was, it sounds like the driver chose the best of several bad options; don't interfere and get either hammered or charged with assault (two older teens are a very different kettle of fish from, say, two squabbling eight-year-olds) and keep the other kids on the bus out of the way.

Uhhh, no he didn't. If he was going to do nothing then he should have done nothing. "Clear the aisle and let them fight" was a very poor choice of several bad options.

Depending on just how nasty it was getting, it still could have been the best option. What's better, letting them fight it out with others in the way, or clearing the space? OK, "Clear the aisle" would have been better, without the "Let them fight" at the end. Still, considering the students' ages, I'm having a hard time getting too worked up about this.

And that is why I am not in any form of authority or implied authority over children. Two kids want to fight, let them fight. When I was in high school and jr high I would have rather fought someone and had it out instead of being told not to fight and that if I did, under zero tolerance, I would be arrested and expelled. At least when you fight, it's out of your system over and done with.

Man arming teachers and bus drivers looks better all the time. Just think if he had been armed he could have unloaded all 22 shots from his Glock 22 Urban Pacification Assualt pistol and ended the fight with five dead savages.

Great Janitor:And that is why I am not in any form of authority or implied authority over children. Two kids want to fight, let them fight. When I was in high school and jr high I would have rather fought someone and had it out instead of being told not to fight and that if I did, under zero tolerance, I would be arrested and expelled. At least when you fight, it's out of your system over and done with.

You ever been in a fight in high school or jr high? It was never two kids wanting to fight it was always three loser assholes, who would be in jail by the time they were twenty, holding down one kid and kicking the shiat out of him.

The Stealth Hippopotamus:This world would be a better place if you just let the snowflakes deal with their own problems. Now they're going to have a problem with each other for years and a record to boot.Know how I know you DRTFA